South Korea's Daewoo International Comes Under Pressure Regarding Uzbekistan Fields

A South Korean trading company has become a target of human-rights activists for using cotton that it admits is produced by child labor and forced adult labor in Uzbekistan. While the company says it has asked the country's government to stop the practice, it says it has no plans to stop using the cotton.

Activist network Cotton Campaign is demanding that Daewoo International Corp., a subsidiary of steelmaker Posco, withdraw its investments from the Central Asian country. The network says that would exert more influence...